Robert Downey Jr’s net worth is massive but still nowhere near Tony Stark’s

Robert Downey Jr is so rich he could retire very comfortably after his stint with Marvel – but he’s nowhere near his character Tony Stark on the rich list.

It’s safe to say the 57-year-old is likely making an accountant somewhere very happy since he started acting back in the 80s – even with the grey areas of his past.

Career and net worth

Downey has come a long way since he started his career back in 1983, although the fleeting success of his off-Broadway show, American Passion, was short lived. After that he did have a brief slot on Saturday Night Live in 1985 but that didn’t work out either.

However, since then Downey has had an array of starring roles – of course, his most notable has got to be as Marvel’s Iron Man, aka Tony Stark.

While working for Marvel, the Avengers star had a salary of $80 million which, in 2020, made Downey the highest paid actor in the world for the third consecutive year, according to Variety.

Now the star has an estimated net worth of a staggering $300 million. So he could actually never act again and be more than ok. And he’s done well since he had more than a dip in his career due to legal issues.

Way back in 1996, the actor was arrested for speeding and cocaine and heroin possession, which he got a three year probation for. But three years later he was ultimately handed a three-year prison sentence at the California Substance Abuse Treatment Facility and State Prison after breaking his probation and he spent a year there.

Many would’ve thought his career was over then but he clawed it back when he got a spot on Ally McBeal in the early noughties and eventually even won a Golden Globe before going on to really rake in the millions with Marvel.

Still not as rich as Stark

Despite that, in comparison to his on-screen counterpart, Tony Stark, that’s just spending money. As in the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) Stark is the second richest character.

Yes, there is actually one character with more money and that’s the Black Panther who has an eye-watering $90.7 trillion, according to Wealthy Gorilla’s ‘richest comic book characters’ list. Stark is said to be worth $100 billion.

Many fans might’ve already known this, but even a novice to the MCU could guess Stark had a shed-load of money after he not only owns dozens of businesses, buildings, and planes, he built a mega weaponised suit, became Iron Man, and even helped saved the universe without having any powers of his own – just money.

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